[sr #110417] Do not generate a back up file when running autoreconf

Zack Weinberg <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Follow-up Comment #2, sr #110417 (project autoconf):

Yes, you can write a patch to add a way to tell `sub update_file` not to
create backup files, and then wire that up to command line options in each of
the programs that use `update_file`.  You need to start by patching
*Automake*, because the file that defines `update_file` is shared between the
two projects.  Once your patch is committed in Automake, then you write a
second patch to update Autoconf's copy of FileUtils.pm and add the command
line options to Autoconf's programs.

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